The Surviving Image : Phantoms of Time and Time of Phantoms: Aby Warburg's History of Art Paperback / softback
by Georges Didi-Huberman
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The Surviving Image, originally published in French in 2002, is the result of Georges Didi-Huberman’s extensive research into the life and work of foundational art historian Aby Warburg.
Warburg envisioned an art history that engaged with anthropology, psychoanalysis, and philosophy in order to understand the “life” of images.
Drawing on a wide range of Warburg’s unpublished letters and diaries, Didi-Huberman demonstrates unequivocally the complexity and importance of Warburg’s ideas and the ways in which his legacy was both distorted and diffused as art history became a “humanistic” discipline.
The Surviving Image takes Warburg as its main subject but also addresses broader questions regarding art historians’ conceptions of time, memory, and symbols and the relationship between art and the rational and irrational forces of the psyche. Faithfully and thoughtfully translated by Harvey Mendelsohn, this first English-language edition of Didi-Huberman’s masterful study of Warburg is a stirring and significant treatise on the philosophical nature of art history.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:432 pages, 93 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Pennsylvania State University Press
- Publication Date:09/01/2018
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- ISBN:9780271072098
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:432 pages, 93 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Pennsylvania State University Press
- Publication Date:09/01/2018
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- ISBN:9780271072098